Words, Words, Words

"Finally my father yielded, although it was agreed that Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior must don a special shirt that Father would have fabricated, which would say: OFFICIOUS SEEING-EYE BITCH OF HERITAGE TOURING.
This was so she would appear professional."

Everything is Illuminated
by Jonathan Safran Foer



February 23

ourpresidents:

Dinner Diplomacy Thaws the Cold War

Sometimes sharing a good meal is the best way to resolve the differences you may have with another. For the United States and China, this strategy helped normalize relations during a peak of the Cold War.  Read more

Images from Nixon’s culinary travels through China:

Banquet place settings (cigarettes included);  Chinese people having lunch outdoors; President Nixon using chopsticks; Pat Nixon samples cuisine in the Peking Hotel kitchen;  Menu from Banquet given by Prime Minister Chou in honor of President Nixon.  February, 1972.